Sorry slacktivists: The Man is shredding your robo responses — Orlowski: “The EU this week binned thousands of responses to a copyright consultation generated by a Canadian lobbying group OpenMedia, a groupuscule funded by Canada’s technology industry. In December, OpenMedia declared that the European Commission was going to “copyright the hyperlink” and urged people to submit a roboform to “Save The Link”. Scared out of their wits, 75,000 people did just that. The problem was that the scare was entirely bogus. Even academics hostile to copyright declared that the EU wasn’t proposing anything of the sort. The protections safeguarding publishers large and small would remain intact.”

Authors Guild v Google: The Fair Use Transformed — Speaking of the Authors Guild petition, be sure to check out my article at the Copyright Alliance site explaining why the Copyright Alliance filed an amicus brief supporting Supreme Court review.

Attacking the Notice-and-Takedown Strawman — Devlin Hartline makes a sharp observation regarding criticisms of certain proposals to improve the DMCA notice and takedown process, “supporters of notice-and-staydown today are actually advocating for what the EFF recognized to be reasonable over eight years ago.”

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Terry Hart is currently VP Legal Policy and Copyright Counsel at the Copyright Alliance. Any opinions expressed on this site remain his own and not necessarily those of his present or any past employers.